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Deadline for dignity

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Deadline for dignity
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FOR many Jamaicans May 8 is just another day on the calendar, but for shelterees at Petersfield High School in Westmoreland it marks a long-awaited turning point as they anticipate the end of almost six months of displacement caused by Hurricane Melissa and finally having a place to once again call home.

Currently housed in classrooms on the school’s premises, the residents — some of whom had never been in a shelter before — said they hadn’t imagined they would find themselves homeless and liv

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